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Westwood, George Washington

American, 1804 - 1897

Biography

George Westwood was the youngest child in a portrait of the three sons of John and Margaret Westwood, painted c. 1807 by American naive artist Joshua Johnson. The picture (now in the NGA) passed by inheritance to Westwood's great-niece, Grace Geddess Davis, who in turn passed it to her sons. George lived in Baltimore all his life, working variously as a clerk, collector, feed merchant, tobacconist, deputy sheriff, and deputy warden of the local jail. He also belonged to the Baltimore National Blues and to the Morgan Rifles. Westwood lived in the Aged Men's Home in Baltimore at the time of his death.

Bibliography

1987
Weekley, Carolyn J., Stile Tuttle Colwill, et al. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter. Baltimore, Maryland, 1987: 138.

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